Chapter Summaries

Li Shiming collected the treasures and resources left after destroying Great Thunderclap Temple, while seven Great Power Clones arrived and confirmed that Huinan Bodhisattva and Huiyue Bodhisattva had fallen. Back at the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect, Li Shiming discovered that Huinan Bodhisattva’s Soul Crystal Ring contained Great Thunderclap Temple’s accumulated wealth and a Venerable-level inheritance.

• Li Shiming found two Soul Crystal Rings and two Fifth Grade Buddhist Spiritual Treasures among the ruins, then left for the Eastern Qi Continent.
• Seven Great Power Clones inspected the destroyed Great Thunderclap Temple Mountain Gate and confirmed that Huinan Bodhisattva and Huiyue Bodhisattva had fallen.
• The Great Power Clones linked the Radiation Pollution to the Jade Purity Sect, agreed to divide Great Thunderclap Temple’s newly exposed resources, and allocated a share to the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect.
• Li Shiming returned to his Cave Dwelling, entered the Heavenly Human Blessed Land, and examined the treasures he had recovered.
• Li Shiming found that Huinan Bodhisattva’s Soul Crystal Ring held Great Thunderclap Temple’s resources, Buddhist Ships, treasures, and a Venerable-level inheritance.

Li Shiming gained treasures from Huiyue Bodhisattva, learned that Ten Thousand Beasts Sect had received a foundation in the Central Continent, and helped Li Yuanba settle back at Sword Intent Soaring Pavilion. After Blackwater Island seized Ten Thousand Beasts Sect ships and captives, Li Shiming’s Golden Winged Great Peng headed there alone.

• Li Shiming found three ancient Life-Saving Talismans, numerous Otherworldly God War Soldier corpses, and three high-quality energy crystals in Huiyue Bodhisattva’s Soul Crystal Ring.
• Great Cultivator Hu told Li Shiming that Ten Thousand Beasts Sect had been allocated resources near Great Thunderclap Temple’s former mountain gate, and Li Shiming revealed that the temple had been destroyed.
• After refining sixty more Holy Spirits, Li Shiming sent them and other Half-Step Great Powers to Li Yuanba’s Blessed Land, then brought Li Yuanba’s Cave Heaven carrier back to Sword Intent Soaring Pavilion.
• Sword Elder’s clone asked Li Yuanba to warn Li Shiming not to approach superpower mountain gates, and Li Shiming understood that the Cultivation World feared him after Great Thunderclap Temple’s destruction.
• Blackwater Island seized two Ten Thousand Beasts Sect Far Sailing Boats and their cargo, planning to ransom the captured cultivators.
• Li Shiming’s Golden Winged Great Peng set out alone for Blackwater Island in Southern Zhao Continent.

Li Shiming sent the Golden Winged Great Peng to destroy Blackwater Island and rescue the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect captives, strengthening the sect’s fearsome reputation. Decades later, he entered the Divine Hall again and found six Peak Great Cultivators preparing to trap him for the secret of his return.

• Li Shiming sent the Golden Winged Great Peng to Blackwater Island, where its aura killed the island’s cultivators and its Five Colors Divine Light slew the Island Master and eight Vice Island Masters.
• The Golden Winged Great Peng freed Great Cultivator Chai and more than four hundred Ten Thousand Beasts Sect cultivators, who stripped Blackwater Island of its valuables.
• The destruction of Blackwater Island frightened other forces, and the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect continued to grow over the following decades.
• Li Shiming waited several years, arranged the sect’s affairs, left Yin Shilan in the Heavenly Human Blessed Land, and used the Teleportation Ring to enter the Divine Hall.
• Six Peak Great Cultivators appeared in the Divine Hall, recognized Li Shiming as the cultivator who had entered before, and formed a formation to trap him and seize his ability to return.

Li Shiming subdued six Peak Great Cultivators, then used his spirit pets to sweep the Divine Hall for rare resources. At the Sensing God Monument, he discovered that arranging his five Cave Heavens like the Five Elements Qi Absorption Array pointed toward his path to Half-Step Great Power.

• Li Shiming trapped the six Peak Great Cultivators in the Northern Dipper Formation Diagram and sealed their Nascent Souls.
• Li Shiming tested the Divine Hall's restrictions and found that they could not harm his body or Half-Step Fifth Grade spirit pets.
• Li Shiming summoned his Holy Spirits, Eternal Life Water Bear Insects, and Golden Winged Great Peng, then sent them to gather Great Cultivator Resources throughout the Divine Hall.
• Li Shiming reached the Sensing God Monument and entered an illusion showing his five Nascent Souls forming five Cave Heavens in the pattern of the Five Elements Qi Absorption Array.
• Li Shiming used the IBMz15's recording of the illusion to preserve its clues and recognized a possible path to Half-Step Great Power.

Li Shiming explored the Hundred Herbs Garden, gathered its spirit herbs, and discovered that they formed the recipe for the Hundred Herbs Pill. After refining the pill and claiming the garden, he gained an ancient alchemy inheritance and a means to cultivate spirit herbs, including Fifth Grade Spiritual Herbs.

• Li Shiming collected five Five Elements Heavenly Secret Treasures before entering the Hundred Herbs Garden to gather one of each of its 136 Great Cultivator Spirit Herbs.
• Li Shiming used a Demonic Path Secret Technique to send six Peak Great Cultivators into the garden and obtain six more sets of spirit herbs.
• Li Shiming rode the Golden Winged Great Peng into the garden through an abnormal route, broke the herbs' defenses, and gathered every Great Cultivator Spirit Herb.
• The garden revealed a Fifth Grade Pill Furnace and the Hundred Herbs Pill formula, and Li Shiming refined six pills to become the furnace's owner.
• The Hundred Herbs Garden recognized Li Shiming as its master, granting him the garden, which could cultivate spirit herbs up to Fifth Grade, and the Divine Hall's ancient Alchemy Inheritance.

Li Shiming escaped the Divine Hall, then secluded himself in the Cloud Island Sea to advance to Half-Step Great Power. He succeeded in creating five connected Blessed Lands, which he developed with Five Elements rules, Spirit Pets, and Dao Rhythm Golden Lotuses as their carriers.

• As the Divine Hall sent him away, Li Shiming killed six Peak Great Cultivators, collected their corpses, and fled the area on the Golden Winged Great Peng.
• Li Shiming established a concealed cave mansion on an uninhabited island, gathered Spiritual Qi, and began his breakthrough in his five Nascent Souls’ cultivation.
• After consuming six Hundred Herbs Pills, Li Shiming transformed his five Nascent Souls into five connected Blessed Lands and placed a Five Elements Heavenly Secret Treasure in each core.
• Li Shiming discovered that each Blessed Land contained the complete Five Elements Rule and that the Five Elements Qi Absorption Array synchronized their growth.
• Li Shiming filled the Blessed Lands with more than two hundred Half-Step Fifth Grade Spirit Pets in rotation and chose Dao Rhythm Golden Lotuses as the five Blessed Land carriers.

Li Shiming welcomed Yin Shilan into his enormous, fivefold blessed land and helped her study its rules while preparing pills and a Heavenly Secret Treasure for her. After more than twenty years, his Teleportation Ring recovered, and he left his Cave Heaven to face the Half-Step Great Power Heavenly Tribulation.

• Li Shiming brought Yin Shilan through the Dao Rhythm Golden Lotus's Space Gate and showed her his vast blessed land, its Five-Colored Light, and its five connected Cave Heavens.
• Li Shiming invited Yin Shilan to stay in one Cave Heaven and comprehend its exposed rules, then built her a palace and guided her studies.
• Li Shiming refined Hundred Herbs Pills and prepared a Heavenly Secret Treasure for Yin Shilan while she continued strengthening her understanding of rules.
• More than twenty years later, Li Shiming's Teleportation Ring recovered, and he decided to leave his Cave Heaven to test whether he could gain a Heaven and Earth Reward from the resulting Heavenly Tribulation.
• Li Shiming summoned 108 Eternal Life Water Bear Insects as armor, stored his Spiritual Veins, and faced the gathering Thunder Cloud as an ultimate Half-Step Great Power Heavenly Tribulation.

Li Shiming discovered that repeated exposure to the endless Heavenly Thunder strengthened his Thunder and Lightning Rules, so he began leaving his Blessed Land to endure more strikes. As the six superpowers investigated the strange tribulations, Wu Da identified Li Shiming as a suspect and used the Soul Chasing Guide to track him.

• Li Shiming endured more than ninety bolts of Heavenly Thunder before retreating to his Blessed Land, and he discovered that the experience had strengthened his Thunder and Lightning Rules.
• Li Shiming healed the Eternal Life Water Bear Insects with his Innate Yi Wood divine ability, then repeatedly left his Blessed Land to withstand more than a hundred thunderbolts at a time and accelerate his comprehension.
• The six superpowers investigated the strange Heavenly Thunder appearing across the Cloud Island Sea while also suspecting that Li Shiming had caused the deaths of their Peak Great Cultivators at the Divine Hall.
• Wu Da sensed Li Shiming's aura at a place where the Heavenly Thunder had recently vanished and concluded that he was responsible for the fallen cultivators and the Divine Hall incident.
• Wu Da borrowed the Soul Chasing Guide from Mao Gang, placed Li Shiming's aura inside it, and followed the direction it indicated.

Li Shiming was tracked by Wu Da's clone, and their encounter beneath his Heavenly Thunder tribulation turned into a deadly contest. He used his defenses and Silver Wing Spirit Gu Insects to make the tribulation destroy Wu Da's clone, then collected the treasures she left behind.

• Li Shiming shared Fourth Grade Asking the Dao Tea with Yin Shilan, who said she hoped to reach half-step Great Power within a hundred years, while he promised to help her advance to Great Power.
• Li Shiming went out to face Heavenly Thunder, where Wu Da's clone found him using the Soul Chasing Guide.
• Li Shiming drew Wu Da's clone into his tribulation, and the Heavenly Thunder escalated to Great Power level and struck them both.
• Li Shiming repeatedly positioned Wu Da's clone beneath him so she bore most of the Heavenly Thunder, while his Eternal Life Water Bear Insects absorbed the remaining force and recovered.
• Li Shiming struck Wu Da's clone with his Silver Wing Spirit Gu Insect gloves, disrupting her control of her energy as successive bolts of Heavenly Thunder battered her.
• Li Shiming's final strike triggered the Spirit Devouring effect, and the Heavenly Thunder destroyed Wu Da's clone; he collected her Soul Crystal Ring and Fifth Grade Spiritual Treasure Feather Fan before vanishing.

Li Shiming hid from the six super forces after killing Great Power Wu Da’s clone, claimed the clone’s treasures, and spent five years using Heavenly Thunder to advance his thunder and lightning rule. He eventually stopped appearing in Cloud Island Sea, leaving the Great Powers unable to find him and his exploits to spread as a secret legend.

• Li Shiming secured Great Power Wu Da’s Natal Magical Treasure and the Soul Chasing Guide in the Server Room Space, then had the Heavenly Ghost clear their Spirit Marks.
• Li Shiming learned that the Banana Treasure Fan could enhance flames for alchemy and artifact refining, and that the Soul Chasing Guide could track even Great Powers by aura or true name.
• After discovering how the Great Powers had tracked him, Li Shiming resumed enduring Heavenly Thunder and evaded their attempts to intercept him.
• Over five years, Li Shiming’s thunder and lightning rule reached the peak of the Half-Step Great Power level, while the Eternal Life Water Bear Insects grew more resilient.
• Li Shiming stopped appearing in Cloud Island Sea, and the six super forces failed to locate him as stories of his exploits spread in private.

Bipolar Sect opened its undersea resource point to visiting cultivators, who discovered Great Cultivator Spirit Herbs and a Fifth Grade Dao Lotus and fought over them. When the lotus repelled the survivors, Li Shiming’s identity and the source of the resource point were revealed.

• Great Cultivator Zhang Hou auctioned Passage Tokens and led fifty Great Cultivators into the sea to gather spirit herbs.
• The Great Cultivators found Great Cultivator Spirit Herbs in bubbles and began fighting over them.
• A Great Cultivator discovered a Fifth Grade Dao Lotus, triggering a deadly battle that damaged Bipolar Sect’s Mountain Gate Grand Formation.
• After the lotus repelled one cultivator’s attempt to take it, Zhang Hou and seven others attacked it together; Zhang Hou held back, and the Five-Colored Light incapacitated the others.
• The Fifth Grade Dao Lotus unleashed a voice that gravely injured the remaining Great Cultivators and killed the cultivator whose soul had already been damaged.
• The chapter revealed that the lotus was Li Shiming’s Dao Rhythm Golden Lotus and that energy from his Five Elements Blessed Land had created Bipolar Sect’s undersea resource point.

After a century of preparation, Li Shiming began his Great Power tribulation, relying on his five Cave Heavens, mastery of thunder and lightning, and Heavenly Human Art to endure its escalating strikes. The ninth bolt overwhelmed his defenses and began vaporizing his body, while his immense vitality struggled to repair the damage.

• Li Shiming isolated his blessed land and prepared to advance, leaving Yin Shilan protected by his Phantom Clone.
• He opened the gates to his five Cave Heavens, and heaven and earth recognized him as one complete whole and unleashed a Great Power-level tribulation above the Bipolar Sect.
• The tribulation’s gathering aura killed every cultivator in the Bipolar Sect, while Li Shiming faced the lightning alone and his Cave Heavens absorbed part of its residual power.
• After enduring seven bolts, Li Shiming entered the Heavenly Human State to withstand the eighth, provoking heaven and earth and causing the ninth bolt to grow far more powerful.
• The ninth bolt struck Li Shiming, vaporizing his skin and muscle as his Innate Yi Wood vitality began repairing his body.

Li Shiming survived the Ninth Heavenly Tribulation, advanced to Great Power, and used the Heaven and Earth Reward to strengthen himself and expand his five Cave Heavens. Great Power Mao Gang's clone arrived to kill him, but Li Shiming countered the clone's formation and left him struggling to break it.

• Li Shiming endured the heavenly lightning, destroyed the Thunder Cloud with Five Colors Divine Light, and healed himself with fifty Innate Yi Wood divine abilities.
• The Heaven and Earth Reward transformed Li Shiming's body and spirit and expanded his five Cave Heavens; he retained the Heavenly Human State's physical enhancement even after shrinking.
• Li Shiming sensed Great Power Mao Gang's clone approaching and waited above the ruins of Bipolar Island.
• Great Power Mao Gang's clone activated the Nine Heavens Star Constellation Formation Diagram and tried to attack Li Shiming while he was newly advanced.
• Li Shiming activated the Northern Dipper Formation Diagram, disrupted the clone's formation, and repeatedly changed his own formation as the clone tried to calculate a way through.

Li Shiming tested the Northern Dipper Formation Diagram against Great Power Mao Gang's clone, then defeated him with close-range swordsmanship and had the Heavenly Ghost devour him. The clone perished, and the Heavenly Ghost gained energy while the Nine Heavens Star Constellation Formation Diagram remained inside it.

• Li Shiming trapped Great Power Mao Gang's clone in the Northern Dipper Formation and watched him fail to break it with brute force.
• Li Shiming agreed to fight directly, struck the clone with his fist, and then used his Sword Foundation to sever its energy channels with Chaos Sword Intent.
• Li Shiming isolated the battlefield with the formation and ordered the Heavenly Ghost to devour the immobilized clone.
• The Heavenly Ghost expelled the clone's energy and kept its spirit and soul, killing the clone and gaining Spirit Energy.
• The Heavenly Ghost spat out the Soul Crystal Ring and retained the Nine Heavens Star Constellation Formation Diagram in its belly.

Li Shiming explored the rapid growth and new rules of his blessed land after advancing to Great Power, then assigned its Cave Heavens to cultivate plants, support cultivation, and nurture Fifth Grade materials. He reunited with Yin Shilan, told her of his advancement, and encouraged her to pursue Great Power as well.

• Li Shiming left the battlefield after defeating Great Power Mao Gang's clone, while two distant Great Power Clones held back and later went to investigate.
• Li Shiming entered his blessed land and discovered that it had gained many new rules and grown to a radius of four hundred thousand meters.
• Li Shiming reshaped his Cave Heavens into Spirit Fields, a Super Spiritual Gathering Grand Formation, an underwater world, a scenic landscape, and a realm of Suspended Mountain Peaks.
• Li Shiming directed the Cave Heavens to nurture Complete Five Elements material, two portions of metal-element material, thunder-element material, and Space Material for his future Spiritual Treasures and cultivation.
• Li Shiming brought Yin Shilan's palace into his cultivation Cave Heaven, and Yin Shilan realized that he had advanced to Great Power.
• Li Shiming reassured Yin Shilan that she could advance too, and she asked why the Spiritual Qi in the Cave Heaven was so dense.

After 110 years away, Li Shiming returned to the Eastern Qi Continent and found the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect under siege. He rescued the sect and healed his injured master, then learned that the Flying Feather Sect and its allies had attacked while Luan Phoenix Palace’s support was absent.

• Li Shiming returned to the Eastern Qi Continent with Yin Shilan and used the Drone Satellite System to discover that cultivators were besieging the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect.
• Li Shiming suppressed the attackers with his Great Power aura, learned that Great Cultivator Hu was badly injured at the Tai Chu Branch Sect, and ordered the surviving enemies captured.
• Li Shiming reached Great Cultivator Hu, healed his wounds with his Innate Yi Wood divine ability, and revealed that he had advanced to Great Power.
• The Intelligence Department reported that the Flying Feather Sect had led the attack, with the Boundless Sect, Northern Dipper Sect, and Returning Origin Sect helping to keep Luan Phoenix Palace from supporting the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect.
• Li Shiming learned that rival superpowers coveted the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect’s pills, inheritances, and blessed lands, and vowed to deal with the Flying Feather Sect.

Li Shiming confronted the Flying Feather Sect for its attempt to seize the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect and attacked Great Power Wen Chao at the sect’s mountain gate. He trapped Wen Chao in two overlapping formation diagrams and began wearing down his defenses with lightning.

• Li Shiming left the Tai Chu Branch Sect despite Great Cultivator Hu warning him to wait, then used Space Movement to travel toward the Flying Feather Sect.
• Li Shiming broke through the Flying Feather Sect’s Blessed Land Space Barrier and appeared at its mountain gate, where Great Power Wen Chao emerged to face him.
• Li Shiming attacked Wen Chao, and the force of his Great Power aura killed low-level Flying Feather Sect cultivators and grievously injured Great Cultivators as Wen Chao evaded him.
• Li Shiming destroyed much of the Flying Feather Sect’s Mountain Gate Grand Formation with a sword strike, leaving Wen Chao shocked by his strength.
• Li Shiming trapped Wen Chao with the Northern Dipper Formation Diagram and the Nine Heavens Star Constellation Formation Diagram, then struck him repeatedly with powerful lightning spells.

Li Shiming used a combined formation and powerful Thunder Methods to kill Great Power Wen Chao while sparing the Flying Feather Sect’s Inheritance Blessed Land. Afterward, Sword Elder and other Great Power clones met with Li Shiming, and Sword Elder revealed that the Central Continent’s superpowers would help rebuild the damaged sect.

• Li Shiming trapped Great Power Wen Chao in a combined formation and continued attacking him with lightning while the Flying Feather Sect’s Mountain Gate was devastated.
• Sword Elder’s clone arrived, and Li Shiming’s Phantom Clone explained that the Flying Feather Sect had nearly killed his Master and tried to seize the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect.
• Li Shiming unleashed one hundred Falling Thunder Arts at once, shattered Wen Chao’s defenses, killed him, and took his corpse without entering the Flying Feather Sect’s Inheritance Blessed Land.
• Li Shiming joined Sword Elder’s clone on a guest platform, brewed Spirit Tea, and welcomed Great Power Meng Jun and the other arriving Great Power clones.
• Sword Elder confirmed that Wen Chao had fallen in a fair fight and asked the assembled Great Powers to contribute to rebuilding the Flying Feather Sect; they regarded Li Shiming with new respect.

Li Shiming learned the rules governing Great Powers and received a map to a dangerous region holding treasures that could help him advance. After the Great Powers recognized Ten Thousand Beasts Sect as a superpower, he returned to the sect and searched Great Power Wen Chao’s possessions.

• Sword Elder explained the restrictions on Great Powers, and Li Shiming cleared away the traces of his battle with Great Power Wen Chao to show his control.
• Li Shiming agreed to follow the rules unless another Great Power provoked him, and the Great Powers discussed Ten Thousand Beasts Sect’s status and his plans to protect it.
• Sword Elder explained the difference between Free Great Powers and Inheritance Great Powers and gave Li Shiming a map to the distant region where higher-quality Heavenly Secret Treasures could be found.
• The Great Powers ended their meeting, and Li Shiming returned to Ten Thousand Beasts Sect as other superpowers took over Flying Feather Sect’s affairs.
• Li Shiming searched Great Power Wen Chao’s Soul Crystal Ring, claimed the Flying Feather Wind Treading Boat for Yin Shilan, and obtained the Wind Suppression Pearl.

Li Shiming and IBMz15 refined a Fifth Grade Sky Strike Thunder Hammer, then tested it against the heavenly tribulation in the Thunder Hell. As the tribulation intensified, Li Shiming used the Thunder and Lightning Body secret technique, risking being absorbed into the thunder and losing his intelligence.

• Li Shiming began refining a Fifth Grade Sky Strike Thunder Hammer in the Server Room Space, using the Hundred Herbs Furnace, Boundless Immortal Fire, and Banana Treasure Fan.
• After softening the Fifth Grade Thunder Element Artifact Refining Material for half a year, Li Shiming shaped it into a hammer and had IBMz15 engrave thirty billion Thunder and Lightning Rule Runes over two years.
• Li Shiming brought the completed Sky Strike Thunder Hammer to the Thunder Hell, where heaven and earth rejected it and a tribulation began.
• Li Shiming used the hammer to bear the heavenly thunder, while the Lightning Resistance Secret Technique and Divine Firmament Thunder Pearl strengthened its defenses.
• When the seventh bolt threatened to seriously injure him, Li Shiming transformed into thunder and lightning with the Thunder and Lightning Body secret technique, struggling to keep his awareness.